Suitable for people who plan to take supplements in winter: Eating yam before autumn and winter supplements is more conducive to the absorption of supplements. Yam is a tonic medicine, which has the function of strengthening the spleen and stomach, and is especially suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach to eat before tonic. It is a good choice to cook 20 grams of yam, jujube and rice (half of japonica rice and half of glutinous rice) into porridge.
MM: Yam is a good helper to lose weight, because it contains less calories, more nutrients and rich crude fiber, which is easy to increase people's satiety and control people's desire to eat. Moreover, the fat content of yam is very low, with only 0.2g fat per100g yam, thus achieving the purpose of slimming.
Women with cold hands and feet: Chinese medicine believes that cold hands and feet are closely related to physical weakness, while yam black chicken soup and longan yam soup have good effects of tonifying the middle warmer, benefiting qi and nourishing blood, especially suitable for patients with cold hands and feet.
Old people who are prone to colds: Yam has the function of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi. Therefore, patients with qi deficiency due to excessive sweating and repeated colds should moderately increase the intake of yam in autumn and winter. Yam can be fried, steamed and spun, or cooked with rice, millet and jujube.
Dyspepsia: Yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which is beneficial to the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach. It is a dual-purpose product of medicine and food. Both spleen yang deficiency and stomach yin deficiency can be eaten. Clinically, it is often used to treat spleen and stomach weakness, anorexia, fatigue, diarrhea and other diseases.